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What I find most amusing about this comic was as soon as I saw the title, “Escalators”, I’m just thinking how much fun it is to run up the down escalator. Low and behold that is exactly what the comic is about. Good to know I’m not alone in my urge to do so.
With the release of the version, the official del.icio.us extension for firefox has improved greatly. This new version is what it took to get me to switch from a third party extension back to the official one. I’ve always wanted to use del.icio.us for all my bookmarking needs, replacing the normal bookmarks in my browser and it seems that day has come.
After some use, I’ve decided this provides the greatest integration of firefox and del.icio.us I could imagine and there are many reasons I love it.
Little by little I’m becoming more productive on computers other than my home computer and it’s wonderful. Check it out here
I’ve had a dislike for powerpoint for as long as I can remember. Reading this article has only reinforced my reasoning behind it. People do not use powerpoint correctly. It is meant to be a supplement of what you’re saying that presents some other information. Using powerpoint to just list the information you’re going to say verbatim has always annoyed me and I’ve seen it done so many times. Now there is scientific research that shows why this use is bad. The working memory doesn’t handle it very well and we would get more out of a presenation that didn’t use powerpoint at all instead of using it badly. It’s always reassuring to have science on your side.
I have really underused the great service Zooomr provides but this morning I was going to upload my pictures from vacation up their and finally get around to using it much more often. I visit the site and low and behold they’re in the process of releasing Mark III, the newest incarnation of Zooomr. Only some of the great things we can expect in this release:
Once this is released on the 15th, two days away, I’m sure I’ll get more use out of it and finally build up my online photos as I’ve been meaning to do for a couple years now. The public API is damn exciting as well since I’m thinking of finding a good way to put it to use and hopefully it works. The suspense is so great I can hardly contain myself. My regards to both Thomas Hawk and especially Kristopher Tate for all the work they’ve put in to making this happen.
One of my favorite places to get music online is Daytrotter. You can go here and download sessions of songs by bands that are recorded live. I’ve found amazing things there and recommend everyone to check it out and especially look at the archives for all bands that have stopped by.
When I was there downloading the sessions by About (free songs here) I saw the counter of total songs served at 499,999 when I downloaded the first song and the next song it was at 500,001. I’m going to conclude there is a damn good chance I was the one to get that 500,000th song and it really makes me feel special. Best of luck to them in the future as I thoroughly enjoy discovering new music and bands I already know and love.
Typography has been something I’ve been at least mildly interested in a while. Could be another reason why Thank You for Smoking is a favorite of mine, the opening credits have a wide variety of really cool typefaces. If you appreciate Pulp Fiction and have any interest at all in typography you should enjoy this video as well.
You can see a higher quality quicktime video if YouTube just isn’t up to your standards.
If you’re one of those types who thought beer goggles is just one of those cop out excuses to do stupid things when you’re drunk you might be wrong. According to the this site on howstuffworks.com it looks to have some hard evidence behind it after all. I wouldn’t suggest using the more scientific excuse any more often but if it happens at least you’ll know there is more legitimacy to beer goggles than you used to think.